1982: East German actor Erwin Gregorek travels to Hamburg to shoot screen tests for a film about the sinking of the ocean-liner Cap Arcona in 1945 - a catastrophe he himself survived as a concentration camp prisoner.

Erwin Geschonneck
Erwin Gregorek

Vít Olmer
Harry Bazulis

Jana Břežková
Irene Syring

Roman Kaminski
Toni Eisert

Wilhelm Koch-Hooge
Kunzig

Barbara Schnitzler
Nina Schiefel
Bohumil Vávra
Ulf Syring

Klaus Manchen
Richard Schiefel

Gert Gütschow
Richter

Manfred Zetzsche
Ehlers

Carl-Hermann Risse
Lawyer

Joachim Siebenschuh

Václav Voska

Klaus Gehrke

Lutz Riemann